This thread is awesome, thanks for posting it. I've started eating a lot better over the last few weeks but clean eating is what I want. I'm starting from today - nothing processed! Tonight, steak and veggies

I have already started feeling so much better just by cutting out soda, and fatty take away stuff. I still eat the odd fatty thing though. (we made korean sticky crunch chicken wings the other night, but nothing processed!)

My understanding of clean eating is like eating how my grandparents ate.... Before science made a better tomato. So, non gmo, preferably organic fruit and veg, homemade preserves, grass fed beef, eggs from the chook pen, and shop food was gotten once a month. Then I googled clean eating and gluten is the devil and processed food his minions. All food has to be processed. I'm going to stick with my understanding.

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Well, I am a non-native speaker of English and when someone says that they buy nothing in a bag or box, it obviously does not mean the same to me. We have no bulk bins in super markets ( the law wants to avoid that people can touch the stuff with unclean hands and this way contaminate the food ) and even if I buy bulk items ( like legumes or pulses ) in a neighborhood market, they have to be packed by law in a new clean bag. I bought lentils yesterday in the supermarket and they all came in a sealed 1 kilo bag and the Barilla pasta I bought came in a 500gr box . The bag said in the ingredient list : " rice " and the pasta listed " durum wheat and water " , which is what I was looking for.

OMG pasta and legumes and rice! recipe for fat! I guess I thought this was going to be more of a Paleo group. Clean eaters often eat organic meats, eggs, dairy, and no gluten for sure, many do no legumes or grain at all.

I can't relate to " clean " eating, because I have no idea what it means. The same is true for what is called the Paleo diet. Coming from a " cook & eat at home " culture and having lived in similar countries all my life, I have eaten all my life home cooked, all natural, whole foods that are not industrially processed or altered. I do however eat things that are artesanally cured, salted, dried, fermented, ground etc.
I have lost 65 plus pounds without avoiding carbs and have no problems with gluten. I do feel sorry for people who do, but would never make a blanket statement saying that pasta and legumes and rice are recipes for fat, because it is not true for everyone.
I also understand that many " clean " eaters " eat organic meats, eggs, dairy, and no gluten for sure, many do no legumes or grain at all ".
However other " clean " eaters eat other things and in my case it does not matter, because I have never claimed to be a " clean " eater, which for me would mean that I eat according to a philosophy where no one knows what it really means in the first place.
I am a strong advocate for each individual finding their " program " and make it work for them, but really don't care for blanket statements very much.

If you are looking for a Paleo group just do a search and I am certain you will find several...:o).
Good Luck !

I like Dr. Robert Lustig's (author of "Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease") guidelines for eating clean. If the food is labeled with a nutrition facts panel, it probably isn't your best choice. Instead, use foods as they come off the tree, out of the ground, or off the animal.